I wrote a bit about my initial read through on Hedge. It's on my all-too-long "to play in the future" game list. bankuei.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/g...

I am spending my entire afternoon manually adding glitch effects to page spreads because I couldn't find any way to automate the process ~and~ achieve the look I wanted. My life is weird.

I was just HEDGE-posting last week, this game rules

@acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social is responsible for some of my favorite flavor text in any game (the monster intros from HEDGE. Have you played HEDGE? Go play HEDGE!) After DEAD BELT, I had a pretty good idea he'd be able to deliver on the destruction of a space ship (I was right)

Had someone reach out and say that HEDGE was their favorite Fey sourcebook for their ongoing folk-horror OSR game. There was a moment I was affronted and then... You know what? I'll take that.

Even if you're unfamiliar with the LUMEN engine, this one is worth the price of admission just for the excellent faerie horrors that fill the back half of it.

HEDGE is now available on Amazon in softcover! If you already have it and think other folks should know it exists, we'd love a review. Reviews are one of the biggest signals to Amazon that the game is worth showing to other people, and it helps us a ton. 🖤 www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VVKV8K

HEDGE is now available on Amazon. If you've fought off any incursions by the Fae, the team would appreciate your review! www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VVKV8K

In that Halcyon period of creation where my brain is like "you could do this! Or this! or that! or this! Why not start them all at the same time and see where it takes you???" No regard for future Graeme and his myriad of commitments or lack of energy. Its all Magical Christmas Land

So I'm heading out to a THING tonight where there will be bourbon and shouting and if this kickstarter reaches 69% while I'm there you all have the chance to make me abruptly become very annoying

This FUCKING year. Days-long hard frees busts a pipe and floods the game room. AC goes out. And now? A single-handle shower... won't turn off! And the soonest we can get even an emergency plumber out here is TOMORROW! It's not medical debt, but it is crushing debt. www.gofundme.com/f/help-owen-...

More glitches, more CRT distortion, more DIY, repairable, customizable cyberpunk. The cracked-screen iPhone cyberpunk ethos is too bleak. What do you mean I can only install approved apps on my cyberarm!? It's my fraggin' arm!

I asked our Discord babes if they like their cyberpunk CRT retro or modern sleek futuristic. The response was a very retro yes thank you. So, I am laying out Dead Net accordingly, and it is going to be glorious.

I game design in physical notebooks. Also in old school .txt note files on my desktop. Also in Google Docs online. Also in Excel spreadsheets saved locally. Also through moodboards on Pinterest. I'm a rat, building a nest of game around me and giving anyone who comes too close rabies.

In the CASTLE AUTOMATIC, time is broken and must be repaired by the players as they explore the dungeon. The inside cover of the book has this reference page laid out so you can use paper clips to track the current state of the weather, seasons, and time of day.

Throwback to the time I ran a transhumanist sci-fi amnesia choose-your-own-adventure through daily Twitter polls, back in 2021: x.com/mirror_lock/... I like Bluesky as a platform, but man, right now I really wish it had polls so that I could dream of doing something like UNDUE here again someday.

Wed night @aaronmfking.bsky.social & Tony sit down w/ @johnharper.bsky.social to talk about the creation & evolution of Blades in the Dark, Rhythm & Rolls, Agon Epithets & One Roll Combat. And explore life & design through the lens of PbtA moves and play! Join us live at YouTube.com/plusoneexp

Update, Dead Net, an inheritor to Dead Belt is about 70% done and I'm still in love with it. Get your mirror shades ready. Queue up your favorite synthwave soundtrack. We've got a Net to burn.

Dead Net is cyberpunk Dead Belt on steroids (more features, more shenanigans) and I'm having a great time with this one. Like with Dead Belt, there are things I want to do that are not practical for long-term distribution, so there will be some neat Kickstarter-exclusive features.

HEDGE is in the wild. It always feels good to bring another project to life with @navidrake.bsky.social and @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social Want to guard your Hearth against the incursions in the Wyld? Pick up a copy and explore the dangers of the Fey courts.

Cyberrats in Space is LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! Get this game of fast, tactical combat, revenge in space, and giant rats in giant mechs! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

Sunday is the one day I don't expect anything of myself or anyone else. So, I'm sipping coffee and going on a weird side rant about romance ttrpgs, romantasy, and xianxia. (I ~am~ working on a project for this but it's been taking a backseat to other projects. Also, Court of Blades exists.)

Because I am an eternal child, I'd already done this to Sailor Moon, Spirited Away, David the Gnome, and I'm currently doing it to Legend of Mana. Sooooo...

I've turned my attention back to interviews on the site in a revived Meeting of Minds with a new format. First of this new batch is Craig Shipman from @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social. We chat Actual Play, learning RPGs, and what Blades in the Dark has taught him. giantbrain.co.uk/2026/06/13/m...

I've found that it's right about the 200 page mark when the time spent making sure everything is adhering to your style guide becomes -noticeable-. Remarkable, if you will. Worthy of remark. Anyway, this is why I pay @nordaim.bsky.social.

Just look at this great map of Pine Shallows that @outridercreative.bsky.social drew. Just look at it!

My process is not photogenic. I glare into the middle distance while chewing on the problems, half-explain a fix to Navi, realize it would never work, and then she says something that unlocks my brain, and I sprint to my writing chair.

My messy-ass work station and messier-ass, coffee spill victim, barely holding together notebook. But scribbling over notes after they've been moved to my clean working document is uniquely satisfying.

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How is your #RomantasyTTRPG going? Already submitted? Promo below! And still considering whether to join? Sources (me) say you should 'cause it's fun. ⚔️❤️ itch.io/jam/romantas...

I’ve got such a specific desire for games that include hacking and Cyberpunk was… Well, it turned my hacker into a wizard. I could pop heads, make folks catch fire, give them plague, blind them, turn their guns off… I used programs (spells) if I had enough RAM (mana). I was a wizard.

I am, in fact, still alive. I've just been hyper-focused on a project all week, and forgot to human.

Fourthwall because I've tried ALL of them. Shopify Paid, Gumroad, Ko-fi, Patreon Shop. Fourthwall is the only one that allows me to sell digital (5% fee), prints (no fee), merchs, connect my domain, accept donations, subscriptions, email access, analytics and more. It's free if under 50 products.

Our games (The Curse of the House of Rookwood and Rebels of the Outlaw Wastes) are on RPG Trader! The site just launched, you can get our games and a whole lot more at a discount for the launch! rpg-trader.com/creator/570/...

I'm resistant to changing things I'm comfortable with, but Shawn finally got me to use wet/dry erase cards for game dev and it's seriously so good. The time savings of not having to erase pencil is real. All character sheets should come in wet/dry erase.

I rarely have opinions on games, but Touhou Mystia's Izakaya continues to be the best $5 I've ever spent in my life.

I got about a half hour into playtesting, filling a page of notes with things to unfuck, before I was struck by a sudden, burning desire to learn short hand, and remember cursive.

Please go see the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE movie this weekend! My toy shelves endorse it! It's a ton of sincere, charming, poppy joy...the kind of movie people say they want. So, go prove it!

I need you all to understand how rare it is for Navi to circle back to something that didn't make waves when we released it. She didn't just circle back, she rewrote it and dropped the nearly finished manuscript in my lap. "Needs flavor," she says, pointing to the oracles. "Write." Very well.

Dungeon Jam has been haunting me. We released it as an ashcan is 2024 and it hasn't done much, since the buy-in for a game that weird is high for a group, and it's hard to justify working on something that isn't either mainstream or making waves.

Official public beta announcement and press release for RPG Trader: rpg-trader.com/public-beta Launch date set for 9 June 2026 @ 10am AEST. Almost time to roll!

@acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social @navidrake.bsky.social We fucking did it. We defeated the waves. Placed them up with their siblings.

I've been slowly adding my TTRPG stuff to this site! I'm excited to see how it goes here compared to on itch. Check my profile out here: rpg-trader.com/creator/134/...

I am ~so~ excited to see these arriving safely. 🖤

5) DUSKVOL AND ILRIENE (FitD) A two-fer at the end here. The cities of Blades in the Dark and Court of Blades #ttrpg are different but similar. They're *roleplaying* cities with broad overviews full of hooks and details, but best of all *things to do*. Also canals. I'm including Blades'68 too.

This morning I published the second essay in the design series for Violent Delights: my chess-based RPG about Romeo & Juliet. This one examines boxed rpgs alongside games that adapt board game components for similar ends. I talk about Dread, Fake Chess, The Dance & the Dawn, and Asher's Ridge.

I have moments where I am sorely tempted by the successes of writers who have, in the grandest tradition of our artform, written smut to pay the bills. I just don't know if I can do it without adding journaling prompts or dicerolls. I am broken.

Well, obviously I would!

HEDGE was the smoothest distribution I have ever done. I have a system now. Now, I am dangerous.

I keep physical copies of reference books, in particular. They are my emotional support books. Having reference material in your hands just hits different.