We are the DMs and Rene Plays Games wish you all a very happy holiday season! Be sure to check out of Christmas special wherever you get your podcasts, and may the Christmas Bean Trees smile upon you

DMsafterdark are live again tomorrow night at 7pmish EST for the next session of @evilhat.bsky.social Deathmatch island! m.twitch.tv/dmsafterdark...

@dmsafterdark.bsky.social is back tomorrow Saturday the 6th at 7pmish EST continuing our run of @evilhat.bsky.social Deathmatch Island! We’re heading to island 2. Hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/dmsafterdark

@dmsafterdark.bsky.social are live again tomorrow, Saturday the 15th at 7pmish EST with another session of @evilhat.bsky.social Deathmatch Island. Hope to see you there!

@dmsafterdark.bsky.social are live again tomorrow night at 7pmish est with the second session if our Deathmatch Island series! @evilhat.bsky.social #ttrpg

My new Call of Cthulhu scenario Debitum Ignis is available now! A young neurodivergent man is falsely accused if witchcraft in a Colonial Rhode Island village, and the investigators must uncover the truth of the darkness in Houton. @callofcthulhu @chaosium www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

We’re on twitch again tomorrow night at 7ish est playing @evilhat.bsky.social’s Deathmatch Island. Hope to see ya there! www.twitch.tv/dmsafterdark

Streaming again tomorrow night. Taking a break from rpgs for something silly; temu/wish/etsy price is right

Brand-new International Journal of Role-Playing issue, this time on the topic of Consent in RPGs. @suzphdm.bsky.social served as Special Issue Editor on this one, and we are thrilled to see it in the world. journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...

I didn't just write a defense of rules light games. I rebut common criticisms of rules heavy games too! The only hot take here is TTRPGs are wonderful and variety is great! Come see why I think rules heavy games don't deserve the heat. thoughtpunks.com/reb... #TTRPG #Blog

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Tomorrow night we wrap up this phase of our Company of The Dragon campaign with the party in Whitewall just in time for the final Lunar assault. #glorantha #chaosium

We’re 5 copies away from Silver on my Call of Cthulhu scenario Deadfellas. I’ve lowered the price to 3 bucks for the weekend to get over the hump. If you want a fun mobster one shot, consider buying it! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

our Company of The Dragon game continues live tomorrow night! #glorantha

Back in Sartar tomorrow night for more Company of The Dragon #glorantha

Our podcast has surpassed 25k all time downloads! Thanks for listening! And if you have been listening, wtf is wrong with you? @dmsafterdark.bsky.social @runequest.fun

Streaming again tomorrow night at 7pm EST. Rue and Brynns wedding was crashed by some trolls in need. What will happen next? #glorantha #chaosium

New video! #Callofcthulhu review of the amazing Deadfellas by @thegrendeldm.bsky.social! 💜🧡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpqy...

Back streaming Company of The Dragon for @runequest.fun tomorrow night at 7 est. @chaosium.bsky.social @dmsafterdark.bsky.social

Deadfellas by @thegrendeldm.bsky.social and starring @davidwaldron.bsky.social Nick, Pigalek and Turquoise Vixen is up! Go get your shinebox! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0c...

Back live tomorrow night with the continuation of our Company of The Dragon campaign

We’re live again tomorrow night continuing our Company of The Dragon campaign. #runequest

Watching the Into The Darkness podcast play my Call of Cthulhu scenario Deadfellas.

@andrewlmontgomery.bsky.social welcome to the cool kids table 😀

Another actual play of Deadfellas my 1980s mob scenario for Call of Cthulhu www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZAb...

Trans men’s insight on this is so fucking valuable in understanding the nuances of what’s going on with men. We need to be amplifying them, and hopefully cis men can realize what is actually the source of their loneliness.

The Battle of Gavren Bridge, based on @dmsafterdark.bsky.social Company of The Dragon actual play is now available! The title is pay what you want and all proceeds go to our local library. #libraries #runequest Https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/519590/the-battle-of-gavren-bridge

Runequest tonight. Running my own version of the Storms Age of episode for our Company of The Dragon game

It ook two weeks, but Trump's import taxes are being recognized as an existential danger to gaming. Yesterday, Cephalofair announced that they had $1.2M in a completed print run of a game that they cannot bring into the United States. They haven't said, but I'm guessing that's Gloomhaven 2e.

We’re live again this Saturday night!

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Things I learned recently: books are exempt from tariffs under the Harmonized Tariff Codes. For the moment that means that RPGs are most likely to be affected by Trump's import taxes as a byproduct. Small victories. Here'a nice article by Chris Jensen Romer about a lot of potential repercussions.

Redeploying 2023 AP Survey for folks to re-take (or take for 1st time) We are collecting data about how & why people make & consume (or don’t) #TTRPG Actual Play media. This 10 minute survey is totally anonymous. Aggregated data will be shared with the community! More details: aub.ie/ttrpgsurvey

ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities. Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries #ForOurLibraries

If you're a tabletop designer and/or publisher whose business will be adversely affected by Donald Trump's April 2nd suite of tariffs, I want to hear from you. Changes in business, canceled or delayed projects, etc. email: [email protected] Signal: ChaseTC.24

Well fuck

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

April kicks off with a new Ironsworn Sundered Isles episode! Cassidy and Senator Minos explore a mysterious island and encounter dangerous ruins. Damaris Iver spills the details of the secrets he uncovered of the Kyrody Dominion's use of sky iron.

Hi, #bluesky: As you know, nearly all staff at the (IMLS) was placed on administrative leave and, as a result, all processing of grants has been suspended. W/in weeks libraries will feel the loss of these funds. PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS. #booksky #skybrarians

Ah, these are fools trying to destroy libraries and museums. Bullies with power are the worst.

My physical copy arrived today. All of @chaosium.bsky.social books are absolutely solid and beautifully laid out. Haven’t read it yet, but in my skim I found solid advice and tools for running a gaslight game. I need to get back to foggy London soon .

Very happy to see The Masterwork of Nicholas Forby included in @chaosium.bsky.social s Gaslight Keepers Drive. One of my best gaming experiences was running it with friends. It is indeed a masterpiece. Well done @mikeofcthulhu.bsky.social and all.

I realize just now that I was so busy I didn’t announce this earlier, but join is tonight on @dmsafterdark.bsky.social for the next session of our Runequest game!

Public pushback matters. Keep nagging your reps! I find that way too many people take libraries for granted - and that won’t work now, you have to speak up. These people are actively trying to destroy us. #Booksky #SaveIMLS #SaveOurLibraries

This is anti intellectual fascism. Local communities need to rally behind their libraries because grassroots movements are going to save them, not courts or do nothing controlled opposition politicians.

"On Friday, March 14th, Trump signed an executive order that calls for there elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the nation’s only federal agency for America’s libraries" 5calls.org/issue/instit...

American anti intellectualism is now in full force.

A PSA for all TTRPG designers: stop burying your character creation rules in mountains of text. These need to be accessible during play. If you do have lots of things to explain, please make a nice little recap that takes a LOT OF SPACE so that people can easily use it at the table. Thank you!