Love letters rule ☢️ #ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd

Let's GO! The project is LIVE! #PsiRun2e #ttrpg #PBTA #SuperPowers

Today's the day! Swords Against - Beginner's Box (1979 Replica Edition) is a complete reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of an 1979 RPG starter set purchased at an estate sale, including some of the deceased owner's personal effects. hollandspiele.com/products/swo...

5 favorite books, in no particular order: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Bed by Tao Lin The Sound & the Fury by William Faulkner Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

It always surprises me: that Marie Howe can pull me right out of the muck & mire of everyday living by… writing about everyday life. How devastatingly simple she makes it seem!

Somehow, this one always comes back to me: “Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania,”

I certainly love the sound of this! 💛

As the Stonetop #TTRPG team are not on social media... The final proof has arrived and met satisfaction. It has been placed on the edge of the woods as an offering to tempt the Forest Folk back. Let us be good neighbors. Preorder your copy at ttrpg.link/stonetop

Today seems like the perfect opportunity to reminisce about my favorite moment on the Apocalypse World discord. Come read along with me, just for a minute… 👀

What an absurdly star-studded cast they brought together to make this thing real! If you’re an errant dreamer, an indie game sicko, or a simple science-fantasy girlie, please do yourself a favor & get your eyes on this project right now! 👀✨

Today seems like the perfect opportunity to reminisce about my favorite moment on the Apocalypse World discord. Come read along with me, just for a minute… 👀

This is one of those rare TTRPG texts I cannot resist returning to, owing in no small part to the magical touch of Renee Gladman & @decassette.bsky.social, two of the most spellbinding contemporary artists I know! From @possibleworlds.bsky.social, The Details of Our Escape:

Without a doubt, one of the most challenging & exciting games I've ever played. 7PP is such a strange & powerful creature, and I cannot tell you how satisfying it will be to get your hands on it, to wrestle with it, to sink your teeth into the final thing!

wrote an essay about encoding, decoding, 'you missed the point by idolizing them' and anton chigurh—but most of all about designing tabletop roleplaying games: medium.com/@rosequarter...

This whole thread is delightful. Please do yourself a favor & look at some of these amazing book covers!

I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.

In addition to being an important read, this article has reminded me to grab my Wanderhome Sonic playbook from Twitter and preserve it here.

To send off the old year, we played the incomparable #UnderHollowHills by @megueyb.bsky.social & @lumpley.bsky.social, and... wow! Every time I come back to this game, I am blown away by how absolutely charming it is!

Here's another thing ignored in the pushback on this: as someone who *does* loves GMing, if I get the opportunity to be a player under these structures... it kinda blows??

Disrupting "What is an RPG?" discourse in the Discord by repurposing Zen koans.

Re-reading the sacred texts in preparation for a little one-night-only show and… my word, this game! Gets me every single time. 💛 #UnderHollowHills

Introduce yourself in five #ttrpg classes? - The Luminous (Apocalypse World: Burned Over) - The Weeping Gale (Under Hollow Hills) - The Exile (Wanderhome) - Amelie (Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast) - The IPSN “Nelson” (Lancer)

I can be drawn in by a compelling pitch, one that makes a clear offer of something unusual or inspired. But I will be won over when I see actual mechanics filled with potential energy. Give me a taste of how powerful play could feel, and you have me.

Every once in a while, I need to be reminded how good the playbooks are in Under Hollow Hills. (They’re so freakin’ good!!) ✨

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a big developmental milestone for wanderhome was a vision of a melancholy and beautiful post-apocalyptic world, and then i wrote out what i could imagine the "bands of success and failure" were like — when a player takes an action, whats the best case? whats the worst case?

If you somehow missed it: the world's greatest roleplaying game is back (and better than ever). ☢️

... the mechanics are part of the medium. The mechanics are part of how the author thinks about human interaction and motivation and connection and the way the world works.

Hey! Woah! I can't believe I haven't shared this before. From a game of @rosscowman.bsky.social's #CityofWinter: This is Valor, our young prince-in-exile, alongside Constance, the soon-to-be princess (though neither knows it yet!) I love them dearly! 💛

I've been playtesting this for years now & following along its development. I can say, unequivocally, it is my favorite rpg. Anyone who cares about roleplaying games—as a player, as a game master, as a critic or academic or designer—owes it to themselves to see what Apocalypse World is all about!

Oh my dearies. I have just been reading the finished (maybe? probably?) playbooks, and I love them so much. Only a few more days.

Today is the very last day you can back Ex.Mag Volume 6 and get my and @decassette.bsky.social's ecological sci-fi story "Aeon Orbit" (I've seen the finished pages, they are gorgeous) along with many other awesome graphic short stories Go now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/peo...

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

The world of dew is the world of dew. ‎‎ ‎ ‎ And yet, and yet—

(WIP) Ambitions volume of meaningful player choice is immense. An Ambition to define you, 6 dispositions with 6 voices each tailor your perceptions and subconscious. Choose how your Archetype, BL, and Culture express at every level with features that change how you interact with each mode of play.

This is a great thread and discussion about risk awareness and mitigation for game. In the same way that the kink community has had to grapple with risk as a central aspect of BDSM, games need to be intentional about it. Because risk is a necessary component of meaningful, pleasurable, experiences.

Back in, I dunno, '15-'19, the G+ years, the worst person in the OSR* made the argument that rpgs can't foster empathy, but no matter what can only put you in a position to reiterate your prejudices. *Contested, not the only strong candidate.

The fact that @jdragsky.bsky.social brings up, specifically, the NON-expressionist elements of Apocalypse World got me thinking. Funny enough, I’d credit it as one of the games that opened up my own play in a similar direction.

Read this and at the bottom, you will find a link. Clicking it will get you in for the ride. Wanna come along? #ttrpg #PBTA #AWBurned #ApocalypseWorld www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/09/apoc...

Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

"Even life doesn't only hurt." Apocalypse World 2e, Meguey & Vincent Baker

Our first time with this game, my partner was a young priestess—the last of a sisterhood, put to a tyrant's sword for daring to prophesy against him. She fled with all she could carry & the hope that a sign from her gods would guide her way. I played as 300 thieves escaped from the tyrant's prison.

Some interesting thoughts on exploratory/discovered play here, though overall the thread sets up “play to find out” and firm prep as incompatible in a way that I don’t think is accurate or consistent with the former’s origin in Apocalypse World (“always say…what your prep demands” etc).

THE FINAL 48 HOURS HAS BEGUN! Uneasy Lies the Head is 80% funded and has 2 days left to meet its goal! Back now so I can bring the plots and schemes of royal advisors to your table. Check it out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

Last night we played #CityOfWinter, a game of fantasy diaspora by @deernicorn.bsky.social. And something unexpected & beautiful happened.

A pack of aristocrat-ghouls, loping through the streets, howling like monkeys.

A king gryphon & his mate, lazing about a recent kill. Both blood-soaked but sated, slowed.

Ancient baths, choked with brittle red ivy. Dusty sun through the skylights.

2d6 Orcs, truffling