Contributor Highlight: @riz0me.bsky.social is a writing instructor in Chicago, famously owns a physical copy of the Trophy Dark TTRPG (wow!), and has written many incursions for both Trophy Dark & Gold! His Trophy Gold incursion for the anthology is themed around Excess at an elaborate garden party!

YEAST GHOULS

Prospero's Trust from #over/under (subscriber request from patreon) It was so nice to get back to the old spacestation for a bit

I (Tony) put my finger in one of these so you’d know I was helping Team unloaded & received 6000 books and got them stored in about 2.5 hours @rrookstudio.bsky.social Will, Steven & a rare warehouse appearance by @quinnblackwell.bsky.social I would estimate about 1000 of these are gone next week

Assuming all goes well, I’m delivering my full manuscript for the AP book in May. It will then go through 2 readers, hopefully be returned to me for whatever revisions/final edits. The goal is preorder next year, if all goes very well.

It's on like Donkey Kong

If you donate at least $5 on Wednesday, you'll be entered into a raffle to win SIGNED PHYSICAL COPIES of @gendershrug.bsky.social's games "What a Horrible Knight" and "E.V.I.L." If you don't win? You'll be in our WEEK SIX raffle to win a full dice set from @longdogdice.com! linktr.ee/longdogdice

Last of my Kala Mandala adventurer team illustrations. Welcoming 2026 with the tenacity displayed by this party!

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

The Shadow might know what darkness lies within the hearts of men, but if Nancy Drew put her mind to it, she could figure it out.

Can't wait to dive back into some design with Quinn! Come hop in at noon for some game design and body doubling! See you soon!

The Bloggies 2026 submissions are now open! Submit your favorite posts, series, and debut blogs via the official Bloggies page between now and Jan 31st! Please share this around. I'll be making regular Bloggies-themed announcements throughout the month. www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

Let’s make moves

Quick follow up: if you are getting into the Griot Anthology, please follow the designers: @kyngvee.bsky.social @bizzy-brie.bsky.social @labmouse.bsky.social @navaarsnp.bsky.social @reddjack.com @shanwolf.bsky.social And our main editor @bggameworks.bsky.social !

There has not ever, in my knowledge, been a collection of new and established black TTRPG designers like the Griot Anthology. The industry has largely not given a shit. I expect the same for Five Fires. This was going to be a rare whining post, but actually? Fuck that. Instead: Thank you

Eating ~$5 for every international shipment on Every Villain Is a Loser that backed the kickstarter. Would be lovely if folks shared the Itch page for it to help me recover costs <3 afterthought-committee.itch.io/evil

Oh shit! It's jam time. itch.io/jam/makemoves

What are you doin New Years? New Years Eve?

#ImmaculateMisconception is back for a new session in the New Year! Join @quinnblackwell.bsky.social & @carrion-comfort.com as they tackle more development for HIT DOGS at a new time tomorrow! Thursday at Noon over at twitch.tv/tonyplusone or our YouTube channel!

"the games I like don't have incentives" do you hear yourself? This is just a sparkling System Doesn't Matter, give me some real discourse.

This is getting reposted so to be very clear: OSR, NSR, and other adventure driven rpgs are rad as hell and you owe it to yourself to familiarize yourself with them for play and to influence your game designs. Skip discourse, read theory that helps you make games, and go do that!

FIVE DAYS LEFT on our winter sale!! fifteen bucks for all our paid stuff blehhh 🤑🤑🤑 itch.io/s/173322/win...

New podcast logo!

Made a B-movie module for Mörk Borg. THE THING FROM THE SWAMP is creature-feature aesthetics meets doom metal. Currently 34% off. https://loottheroom.itch.io/swamp-thing

If you would have told me in 2023 I'd have GM'd for @superdillin.bsky.social 3 TIMES, I would pass out. I've stolen from Dillin, uh, a lot and getting to work with him was a dream come true, but better still was watching him work and craft and just talking things through with him. A joy, a delight!

The Endtimes Trilogy is coming to #zinetopia & #zinemonth in February! Follow the page now! I'm bringing three interesting new tabletop rpgs about the end of the world. They play great standalone, or pair nicely as a three part apocalyptic anthology. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

It was a fun little time!

It's the end of the year and with the end comes some reflection. So what not a better way then to celebrate some of my favorite TTRPGs, Artists, blog posts, and podcast in this TTRPG Wrap Up post for 2025 youtu.be/0vPmrfIkAds

In case you missed it, I released a semi-cooperative dungeon-defying RPG this year. Your successes depend on each other. glyphtide.games/chainxlink/

A Dungeon Game is here and it's free! (It's been both of those things for ages tbh) Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good). https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game

The next Gauntlet Pitch Day is coming up January 11th! For this one, I’m looking for new Embers (that’s what the playbooks in The Lands Remaining are called). www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day-em...

People dropping banger reflections this week.

Coming soon… DEAD-PILLED! Game by @carrion-comfort.com, with art by @rocketsandpens.bsky.social Carved (up) from Brindlewood!

Are you MAN enough to survive DEAD-PILLED? So happy to share this nasty little #ttrpg with you thanks to @jasoncordova.bsky.social, the @gauntletrpg.bsky.social team, and @rocketsandpens.bsky.social for beautiful art bringing the Blue Fairy to life! Time to Massacre the Manosphere...

In #OVER/UNDER, I saw one character/player offering other characters/players real-life Amazon gift cards for doing certain in-character actions? Where does that fall in the incentives discussion? lol

Tomorrow we're sharing our "State of the Sides" podcast episode. It's a look back at everything we accomplished in 2025 at Many Sided Media and all the things we're looking forward to in 2026. It's great to look back and remind ourselves that all that hard work produced a lot of great stuff 🧵

Anyway if you want a copy of Bear Witness, it's releasing in February. You'll be able to get a physical copy through @plusoneexp.bsky.social (Story Games membership or the zine store) and digital copies in my Itchio bsky.app/profile/ruff...

> be tabletop gamer in 2026 > buy copy of Bear Witness > page 1: "the middle class nuclear family is a cult and suffering is boring" > rest of book is you abusing a girl in your basement, driving your insufferable kids to activities, and finding out your spouse sucks

Finally found my list from last year, gonna talk through it

a bit of what i'm working on in the ttrpg side for 『Swords Against Heaven —REV 3— 』with the seminal and groundbreaking 「 LIQUID STEEL ULTRAVIOLENCE SYSTEM」combat system that has you stealing Position and exploiting openings. taking ideas from Exalted 3e, Legend of the Wulin, and Anima Prime

PART THREE IS OUT PART THREE!!!! Our musical-improv One Shot of Last Train to Bremen continues! We're doing a live-listen in the One Shot discord tomorrow night, but the episode is up for you to hear now!

It’s the penultimate Critique Navidad, and we have a winning micro-module: The Knight Errant! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/30/c...

Fuck it, let's do 10 more, I have so many TTRPGs on my list and some of these would have made the original 10. 💠 Zephyr 🍯 Midnight Muscadines 🎩 Grand Guignol ☁️ Between Clouds 🐋 Hellwhalers 🏰 Mythic Bastionland 🐁 The Far Roofs 🌙 Crescent 🍁 Under The Autumn Strangely 💻 This Discord Has Ghosts In It

We are entering into the time of year when we look at updating and adding new workshops for #ZineMonth. For indie creators -What would you love workshops on? -Who would you want to hear from? -What feels overwhelming about getting your game out? #TTRPG #ZiMo26 #ZineQuest

I don't like when mama storygames and papa OSR yell at each other

My 2026 resolution is that I'm not gonna stop being a heel and become a full scale category 6 bitch tbh

Cairn Winter Newsletter is out! sendy.cairnrpg.com/w/nYwgvSva6K...

Hey folks. I've created a Bluesky account to announce official Cairn RPG business and to answer questions. Also... to read @funkaoshi.com's OSR feed.