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It's #AskACreator day. Connect with some #TTRPG creators! I'm terrible at picking just one person to tag, so let's ask everyone: What passion is driving your #RPGDesign experiments? What's your latest obsession? (Tag a creator you admire to ask them YOUR burning question!) #TTRPGCommunity

What factors help you decide if you are going to buy a game? #ttrpg

Highlighting Coyote & Crow Supplements & Expansions! Ahu Tiiko (Standard Edition) is the first setting expansion for C&C and is focused on horror and mystery stories! And includes tons of extras! Learn more on this 🧵 Pick it up at: bit.ly/4viiAGe or at IPR: bit.ly/3SqK91f

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...

Anyone bought anything on @rpg-trader.bsky.social yet? I'm enjoying how fast it runs as a site. I'm excited to see a new marketplace trying to build an audience! #ttrpg #indiegames

What is the Shakespeare of TTRPGs? #ttrpg #literature #indiegames #hottakes

I've seen a few conversations about starter adventure design recently. My advice is pretty simple. Highlight the selling proposition of your game. Make a story that highlights your setting and/or cool mechanics. After that, I recommend set pieces rather than a railroad. #ttrpg #gamedesign

available on itch for digital download now :') it feels surreal to actually have it out in the world psychhound.itch.io/sg2e #ttrpg #indiettrpg

Last week of the month! That means last chance for you to submit community content to the mecha ttrpg newsletter. I'd love to give your projects a boost: new releases, crowdfunders, sales, blog posts, actual plays, reviews, anything related to mecha ttrpgs!

A post I made about the awesome #indiettrpg scene in the DC Maryland, Virginia area. #gamefacecon #indiescene #ttrpg

Hey folks! Come follow the Backerkit preview page for Swords and Science! #ttrpg #crowdfunding #backerkit www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I think a lot about interrelated truths: - the range of reactions to reviews/criticism — partly based on the source, partly based on their goals - criticism is for the audience but it’s not in a vacuum - multiple (good) critics have said it’s a fight against cynicism: you’re done if you’re numb

I think that's a fascinating piece of #gamedesign thinking. Yes, games are a dialogue between creator(s) and people who play them. In a solo game it is easier to see the communication occuring between the two. #ttrpg #sologames

As I've been growing my Bonsai Diary, I've been not sharing the journal prompts. I wanted to show an example of them. My responses to those are private, but have been helpful. @stickydoodler.bsky.social winter is longer where the bonsai is now. #ttrpg #sologames #journaling

Took a few days off but here's the newest page of my Bonsai Diary journey @stickydoodler.bsky.social Pre color everything was done on the train, where I think the shaking actually helped the art lol #ttrpg #journalingGame #sologames

The best thing about table top games is sometimes you just don't follow the script. Here is today's bonsai which has had an extra 31 years of growing and I decided to color and ink it also. #ttrpg #bonsai #sologames @stickydoodler.bsky.social

Finally playing The Bonsai Diary every day. I started one a few months ago but didn't commit until this week. I'm loving it as a small contemplative slice of my day @stickydoodler.bsky.social #ttrpg #journalinggame #sologame

I'm just starting to take notes on a Solo version of my The Great Hero System. So far I think I need concept prompts, story seeds, and random tables for storytelling. What else do you think is essential for a solo TTRPG? #solottrpg #ttrpg #gamedesign #dnd

Our artist for Swords and Science made a cool video about his illustration process! #ttrpg #gamedesign #heman youtu.be/jeMNUa2R5HI?...

Last night I put my newest game live on DriveThruRPG! Swords and Science is a game designed to take advantage of my new system, The Great Hero System, which is designed to help run games that resemble He-Man, Captain Planet, She-Ra! #ttrpg #gamedesign legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5607...

This is an awesome PbtA #TTRPG about Vampires bound by a code of ethics and created by fellow DMV designer @highlevelgames.bsky.social It on sale at for only 12 more hours on DriveThruRPG! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Dropping an announcement about the new game I'm working on. Plus its got a song I wrote as backing youtu.be/2anEMGxbAJU

Cover art by Berserker Dan Oropallo for the ashcan edition of my newest game. Swords and Science is going to use a system we call The Great Hero system. The ashcan is a 50 page ruleset, basic setting material, 5 pregens, a villain and her henchmen. Inspired by He-Man #ttrpg #gamedesign

Hey so Loot The Room is going to disappear off the internet if I can't come up with about £250 in the next few days. If you've ever thought about picking up any of my games now would be an excellent time to do that. loottheroom.itch.io

This is a thread about @timhutchings.bsky.social and Simone Weil, and other things I think about along the way. #ttrpg #gamedesign

😯😮🫢 The Bonsai Diary is a FINALIST for the 2026 Origins Awards!

It's interesting to me. There are two (reductively) types of TTRPG designers out there. The ones who make their own games and publish them, and those who pitch their games to publishers. The second set are not wrong for doing so, but I've seen some bemoan the fact their game was never published.

Thanks to everyone who applied for our TTRPG Micro Grants! We had so many amazing applications come through, and we are grateful to be able to give back to the TTRPG community as our final act. We are happy to announce the winners below! 👇

This is fascinating and yes, something both TT academics and designers should dig into

Do I have an unhinged opinion? Likely. #ttrpg #gamedesign #meme

In theory I talk about tabletop game design here... When I remember this app exists. #ttrpg #gamedesign

What would help most is steady employment. #accessibility or #UX but can also edit: recently edited @highlevelgames.bsky.social 's May I Enter. Recently working with MCDM on #ttrpg accessibility consulting. Site: kita11y.work (UX portfolio), foxdesign.tech (personal site & accessibility ref)

Hey! We broke $5K right before starting day 2 of 21. Thank you so much to everybody who has backed and shared this. Last year was super hard—we lost a major supplier bc of tariffs, which gutted us economically—and I had been really dispirited, really wondering if I still had it in me.

Have you ever made a game about music and if so, what genre? #ttrpg #gamedesign

Tell me about a cool new game you like!? #ttrpg #ttrpgrising #gamedesign

White space is the idea you don't need to write out everything, players and GMs will build out the setting. I used the term Green space last night and I like it more. Green space is where you have seeded story hooks and ideas for GMs and players to intentionally build off. #ttrpg #gamedesign

Time in RPGs is something I don't think gets talked about enough. D&D was often initially run in semi - real-time. But I don't think I know of another game that does. Instead most games go for a cinematic time that flows as the story needs. Has anyone experimented with this? #gamedesign #ttrpg

What do you think the purpose of a roleplaying game is? #ttrpg #gamedesign

What's the weirdest TTRPG concept you've ever played? #ttrpg #gamedesign

One of the worst things is brainstorming a great project idea and not having the extra brain juice to do it. #ttrpg #gameDesign

There's only one week left on the MONARCHIES OF MAU/SQUEAKS IN THE DEEP Bundle of Holding. If you want to get all this first edition goodness as a low price, now's the time! bundleofholding.com/presents/Mon...

I am curious about randomizers. We've got dice, cards, spinners, rock paper scissors... Any others? #ttrpg #gamedesign

Stranger Things is a great show. D&D is not the best game to emulate it. Would Kids on Bikes be? Maybe Call of Cthulhu? #ttrpg #gameDesign

Just remembered that Bluesky exists. When thinking about game design start with a thing that makes you happy or excited. There is no beginning you have to start with in a game, so start with something that will inspire love for your project #ttrpg #gamedesign

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Today's Government Shutdown livestream starts at Noon! I'll be talking about settings and how to create a setting that grab's people's attention and drags them to the table to play your game. #ttrpg #gamedesign #writing #governmentshutdown2025 youtube.com/live/tiG33V1...

2nd Livestream happened at Noon! Today I'll be talking almost exclusively about my new game, May I Enter. #gamedesign #govshutdown I'll be trying to do these at 12 Noon for every Game Design Livestream during the shutdown. www.youtube.com/live/hSAxtE-...

@stickydoodler.bsky.social Always energizes me when we talk about game design. I picked up a game of his this weekend and his excitement around pushing the envelope about how to do game design made me impressed and delighted.

Actual play of me running May I Enter! Had a great crew of players from @thepocketdragonpub.bsky.social youtu.be/8tQ_Mj-Y74E?...